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Name
  
Francis Ashton


Role
  
Writer

Francis Leslie Ashton Breaking of the Seals by Francis Leslie Ashton Risingshadow

Born
  
June 24, 1904 (
1904-06-24
)
Chapel en le Frith, Derbyshire

Died
  
July 1994, Ely, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Books
  
The Breaking of the Seals, Alas That Great City

Francis Leslie Ashton (24 June 1904 – July 1994) was a British writer known for her first novel Breaking of the Seals in 1946 and a kind of sequel Alas, That Great City from 1948. The two novels concern disasters involving objects orbiting the Earth in prehistoric times. In 1952 he co-wrote Wrong Side of the Moon, which concerns space travel.

Personal life

  • Francis Leslie Ashton was born on 24 June 1904 in Chapel en le Frith, Derbyshire to Mary Alice and William Ashton. Ashton had two siblings, Elizabeth Bruce (1902-1994) and Stephen Thurstan Ashton (1907-1991).
  • Ashton died in Ely, Cambridgeshire in July 1994 aged 90 years.

    • References

    Francis Leslie Ashton Wikipedia
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